Post by thinkinkmesa on May 22, 2012 23:43:15 GMT -5
Media asks to witness Arizona lethal-injection preparation
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At issue, as the 9th Circuit judge wrote, is that "the state insists upon extreme secrecy" in its executions. Attorneys for Lopez and the other defendants have repeatedly detailed how state executioners have struggled to insert the catheters that carry the lethal drugs into prisoners' arms and usually end up surgically implanting a catheter in the prisoners' femoral veins, located in their groin areas.
One prisoner who was executed, Robert Towery, was allegedly denied the ability to speak to his attorneys when the medical team was unable to find a vein in his arms and instead installed the femoral catheter.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/05/22/20120522arizona-death-row-inmates-lethal-injection-preparation-media-samuel-lopez.html#ixzz1vfHDvBEJ
Excerpt;
At issue, as the 9th Circuit judge wrote, is that "the state insists upon extreme secrecy" in its executions. Attorneys for Lopez and the other defendants have repeatedly detailed how state executioners have struggled to insert the catheters that carry the lethal drugs into prisoners' arms and usually end up surgically implanting a catheter in the prisoners' femoral veins, located in their groin areas.
One prisoner who was executed, Robert Towery, was allegedly denied the ability to speak to his attorneys when the medical team was unable to find a vein in his arms and instead installed the femoral catheter.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/05/22/20120522arizona-death-row-inmates-lethal-injection-preparation-media-samuel-lopez.html#ixzz1vfHDvBEJ